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Saturday, March 03, 2012

Unfinished

I enjoy painting skies and backgrounds. Hmm. That's fair enough, right? But now I have projects starting to pile up because I paint the backgrounds but don't always get around to finishing the whole painting. This can be because I have a background idea but not really a foreground one. Or it can be because the foreground idea is more complicated and I don't really know how to do it. It can also be that I try mediums or a new paintbrush out and end up with a lonely background.

These canvases are just leaning against the wall of my hobby room, waiting to be given some much awaited attention. Perhaps I should give myself the goal to finish the 3 following ones before I start anything new. :)

Acrylics

This painting is supposed to go on the wall over the sofa-bed in our guestroom / my hobby room.

Acrylics

I was testing the use of flow improver and slow drying blending medium. I could definitely do something with this, but my conclusion still is that nothing flows, blends and mixes as well on canvas as oils. (while keeping their vibrant colours, that is)

Watercolours

This has been in my pile for well over a year. I really had never tried watercolours at all and just decided to see how it works. I can't say I pushed the experiment very far at the time. I ended up with a very deserted desert. Maybe it needs a cactus and a camel. teehee :)

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I was born and raised in the beautiful French-Canadian province of Quebec. I moved to Denmark in 2010, where my husband and I bought our very first house. I like to try my hands at everything arts and crafts related, with a preference for painting and stone age crafts. I'm also quite interested in gardening, from houseplants to outdoor gardening, but am still very inexperienced at it and my success rate needs some improvement! I take life one day at a time and enjoy it immensely. I'm childhood educator by profession and currently doing a bachelor degree in social education in Denmark (and in Danish!), with a goal to work as special educator with babies, toddlers and preschoolers in the future.